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Lebanese national Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, 74, a founder of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions who was given a life ...
Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836-1902) was a successful painter and printmaker in the 19th Century. Born in Nantes, a port city in ...
Denis, there lies a commune that has forged its history through the determination and spirit of its inhabitants. 13 ...
NEW YORK — “Sargent & Paris,” just-opened at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the John Singer Sargent exhibition I‘ve been waiting for but never knew it. That’s partly because ...
Learn about the real Paris locations of Les Misérables as seen on MASTERPIECE on PBS, and discover the filming locations and BTS details.
France’s iconic capital city is filled with fantastic monuments. Many monuments in Paris are known all over the world like the Eiffel Tower and the Arc De Triomphe. However, some are less well-known.
Just three years before these exhibitions, Paris was in ruins after a disastrous war and humiliating defeat by Germany and the short-lived Paris Commune, a revolutionary government that took ...
A review of Sebastian Smee’s 'Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism,' which rewrites the origin story of modernism.
This conflict came to a head that year during “Bloody Week”, following the Paris Commune, when a working-class revolution was brutally put down.
The Eiffel Tower was unquestionably the focal point and the superstar of the recent Olympic Games in Paris. That is understandable, since Gustave Eiffel’s master piece has been the emblem of the ...
Sebastian Smee and his book “Paris in Ruins.” W. W. Norton/Amber Davis Tourlents You wouldn’t know it from their luminous canvases, featuring idyllic pastoral scenes and vignettes of urban life.
Bloody persecution recurred during the reign of the Paris Commune, and the archbishop of Paris was executed in 1871.